Eight Rules of Love
by Jay Shetty
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Jul 2025 on On Purpose with Jay Shetty.
The general take
Jay Shetty describes Eight Rules of Love as being grounded in Eastern teachings about life stages called ashrams, which he defines as places of growth. The book appears to draw on this philosophical framework to explore relationships across different life phases.
About
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every stage of romance, drawing on ancient wisdom and new science. Nobody sits us down and teaches us how to love. So we’re often thrown into relationships with nothing but romance movies and pop culture to help us muddle through. Until now. Instead of presenting love as an ethereal concept or a collection of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific, actionable steps to help you develop the skills to practice and nurture love better than ever before. He shares insights on how to win or lose together, how to define love, and why you don’t break in a break-up. Inspired by Vedic wisdom and modern science, he tackles the entire relationship cycle, from first dates to moving in together to breaking up and starting over. And he shows us how to avoid falling for false promises and unfulfilling partners.
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Jay Shetty💬 Mentioned
…discussing conflict styles and fight languages in relationships
“And she'd be thinking the same thing. So she'd say, how can you have a conversation when you haven't digested it? How can you fix it when you haven't had time to reflect? I care more because I'm actually thinking about it. I'm actually processing it. I'm actually working through it. It's amazing how you can both be saying the same thing but reflecting it in different ways. That's when I discovered, and I wrote about this in my book, Eight Rules of Love, the fight languages. Venting, hiding, and exploding are the three fight languages.”
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